Spotlight: SAP HANA Cloud development in SAP Busin...

LauraNevin · ‎01-26-2021

You can now use SAP Business Application Studio -- a new SAP Business Technology Platform service -- to develop business applications that leverage the power of SAP HANA Cloud.

SAP Business Application Studio boasts a modular approach to rapid, efficient development of business applications to get your applications up and running quickly, and SAP HANA Cloud is only one of the latest additions to its growing list of supported developer scenarios.

If you are an SAP HANA Cloud user who develops complex SAP Intelligent Enterprise applications comprised of web-based or mobile UIs, robust business logic, and extensive SAP HANA data models, you will soon discover that SAP Business Application Studio was designed with you in mind. In fact, if you are currently using SAP Web IDE for your application development, you can consider SAP Business Application Studio to be its more efficient, fully featured successor.

Why would I use this feature?

Here are a few of the best design elements of SAP Business Application Studio that have the user experience of the application developer in mind:

development (dev) spaces that act like isolated virtual machines in the cloud containing pre-installed tools and runtimes for various different business scenarios (SAP Fiori, SAP S/4HANA extensions, Workflow, Mobile, and so on)

desktop-like experience similar to leading IDEs, with command-line and optimized editors

end-to-end application development capabilities allowing you to design, create, test, build, and run your Intelligent Business Enterprise applications

syntax-aware editors for code and SAP HANA artifacts and calculation views

Where do I go to get it?

SAP Business Application Studio is available to you in the Subscription area of your SAP Business Technology Platform account.

The following steps will get you started:

Log in to your SAP Business Technology Platform account.

Navigate to the Subaccount where your SAP HANA Cloud instance is running.

In the navigation pane (left side), click Subscriptions.

On the Subscriptions page, search for SAP Business Application Studio and then click Subscribe on the tile for it.

Click on the Go to Application link on the same tile to open SAP Business Application Studio.

The rest of the steps to configure SAP Business Application Studio to connect to your SAP HANA Cloud instance are nicely captured here for you: Set up a Development Space for SAP Business Application Studio.

Where can I find out more?

You will find that are a lot of resources available on the Web--perhaps an overwhelming amount. Here are a few of the very best links that are guaranteed to get you on your way, grouped by how you might like to learn: